The water footprint of coffee and tea consumption in the Netherlands. 2007. Chapagain, A.K., and A. Y. Hoekstra. Ecological Economics 64:109-118. This is not a newly published paper, but I found it well worth summarizing here. “Footprint” evaluations — ecological,…
Revised on August 14, 2011Research on coffee growing
Attitudes and knowledge of shade-coffee farmers towards vertebrates and their ecological functions [PDF]. 2009. P. López-del-Toro, E. Andresen, L. Barraza and A. Estrada. Tropical Conservation Science 2:299-318. The authors of this study interviewed 36 Mexican shade coffee farmers regarding their…
Revised on October 27, 2010Climate change will likely alter the distribution of the world’s worst coffee pest, a minute beetle called the coffee berry borer (CBB), Hypothenemus hampei.
Revised on September 15, 2011Bakermans, M. H., A. C. Vitz, A. D. Rodewald, and C. G. Rengifo. 2009. Migratory songbird use of shade coffee in the Venezuelan Andes with implications for the conservation of the cerulean warbler. Biological Conservation 142:2476-2483. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2009.05.018 Most studies of…
Revised on August 14, 2011A study from India measures the invasiveness of coffee into forest fragments from adjacent farms.
Revised on October 27, 2010Comparing tree diversity and composition in coffee farms and sacred forests in the Western Ghats of India.
Revised on October 29, 2010Three decades of deforestation in southwest Sumatra: effects of coffee prices, law enforcement and rural poverty. 2009. D. L. A. Gaveau, M. Linkie, Suyadi, P. Levang, and N. Leader-Williams. Biological Conservation 142:597-605 . I’ve written in the past about Sumatra’s…
Revised on August 14, 2011Ethiopian coffee cultivation — Implications for bird conservation and environmental certification. This is probably the first peer-reviewed paper specifically about coffee growing/shade coffee and birds in Ethiopia.
Revised on July 30, 2011Home garden coffee as a repository of epiphyte biodiversity in Ethiopia. 2008. K. Hylander and S. Nemomissa. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 6:524-528. Nearly all the work that’s been done examining the relationship between shade coffee and biodiversity has…
Revised on October 30, 2010Shade coffee farms promote genetic diversity of native trees. This study looked found that shade coffee farms are valuable for dispersal of genes between forest remnants.
Revised on October 30, 2010Agricultural intensification within agroforestry: the case of coffee and wood products. 2008. Rice, R. A. Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Environment 128:212-218. doi:10.1016/j.agee.2008.06.007 Robert Rice, of the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center, surveyed 338 owners of coffee farmers in Peru and Guatemala to…
Revised on November 2, 2010Biodiversity loss in Latin American coffee landscapes: review of the evidence on ants, birds, and trees. 2008.
Revised on October 30, 2010Simplification of a coffee foliage-dwelling beetle community under low-shade management. C. E. Gordon, B. McGillb, G.Ibarra-Núñezc, R. Greenberg, and I. Perfecto. 2008. Basic and Applied Ecology, in press. doi:10.1016/j.baae.2008.04.004 This study looked at beetle abundance and diversity in coffee farms…
Revised on November 2, 2010Pollinator diversity increases fruit production in Mexican coffee plantations: The importance of rustic management systems. C. H. Vergara and E. I. Badano. 2009. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 129: 117-123. Although arabica coffee is self-pollinating, it can benefit from the activity…
Revised on October 30, 2010Migratory birds prey on serious insect pests on Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee farms, providing economic benefits to farmers — as long as there was natural habitat for the birds nearby.
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